Management
| Dr. Mark Cruise Position: President, CEO and Director A base metal specialist, Mark has extensive global base-metal experience from grassroots exploration through resource definition to production in Europe and the Americas. He completed his Ph.D. on the Irish zinc-lead orefield and was a member of Anglo American's Lisheen Zinc-Lead Mine feasibility/technical team in Ireland that developed the 4,000 tpd Lisheen Mine. In 2001, he transferred to Anglo's Vancouver office, where he held the position of Senior Geologist with responsibility for Anglo's copper and zinc portfolio, including project generation and implementation in Canada, USA and Mexico. In 2004, Mark joined Cardero Resources as Vice President, Exploration, with responsibility for Cardero's Peruvian, Argentinean and Mexican portfolio, including the approximately 850-Mt Pampa de Pongo iron deposit, Peru. In 2008, he joined Trevali where he has been instrumental in the ongoing fast-track redevelopment and planned resumption of production, with partners Glencore International A.G., from three recently discovered deposits at the Santander polymetallic mine project in west-central Peru. | |
| Dr. Anthony (Tony) Holler Position: Chairman and Director Dr. Holler brings his expertise in the mergers and acquisitions field to Trevali. Dr. Holler founded and was the Chief Executive Officer of ID Biomedical Corp., where he oversaw product development from research and development through to commercialization. He eventually sold the company to GlaxoSmithKline for approximately $1.7 billion. Similarly, during his tenure as Chairman and Director at Corriente Resources Inc., he oversaw the development of that company's copper/gold property through bankable feasibility, ultimately selling the company for approximately $700 million. | |
| Mike Hoffman Position: Director Mike has over 25 years of mine management experience including mine operations, corporate development and projects. Recently Mike has been a Vice President with Yamana Gold, Desert Sun Mining and Goldcorp and he was previously President & CEO of Crowflight Minerals and Kria Resources. He also currently serves as a director of Crocodile Gold. | |
| Anton Drescher Position: Director A Certified Management Accountant, Mr. Drescher has brought his financial and managerial expertise to a number of high-profile companies in both the private and public sectors. Since 1994, he has been Chief Financial Officer and a Director of USA Video Interactive Corp., a public company involved in streaming video and video-on-demand that is listed for trading on the TSX-V and the OTC Bulletin Board. He has also been a director of Dorato Resources Inc., a public mineral exploration company listed on the TSX-V, since 1996; President of Westpoint Management Consultants Limited, a private company engaged in tax and accounting consulting for business reorganizations, since 1979; and President of Harbour Pacific Capital Corp., a private British Columbia company involved in regulatory filings for businesses in Canada, since 1998. Mr. Drescher has been a director of Trevali since 2007. | |
| Charles Melbye Position: Director A graduate of Colorado School of Mines with a Geological Engineer-Mining degree, Mr. Melbye brings over 50 years of experience as a mine development expert. Mr. Melbye has held executive positions in numerous world-class mining and exploration companies, notably Anschutz Mining Corp. and the Anaconda Company, where he has demonstrated his expertise in silver, lead, zinc, iron and other industrial minerals in both underground and open-pit settings. Devoting the latest portion of his career to South American mining projects, including Corriente Resources Inc., Mr. Melbye is renowned for his abilities in seeking, acquisition, exploration and operation of highly successful mining properties. | |
| Dr. Paul Klipfel Position: Director Dr. Klipfel completed his Ph.D. in Economic Geology from Colorado School of Mines in 1992 and has over 32 years' experience of mineral exploration and project development for a wide range of mineral commodities and deposit types in North and South America, Australia, South Pacific, Africa and Asia. He has been a contributor to the discovery process on several major deposits. Recognized as a specialist in structure, alteration and their relation to mineralization, Dr. Klipfel is currently President of Mineral Resource Services Inc., a consulting practice based in Reno, Nevada. | |
| Anna Ladd Position: CFO A Certified Management Accountant, Ms. Ladd received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1991 and a Masters of Arts in Economics from Queen's University in 1993. Anna has over 15 years of experience in financing and financial controls in relation to the mining industry from mine controller up to and including responsibility for multiple large scale open pit and underground base and precious metal production units. Anna has served as Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer for a number of TSX listed junior mining and development companies in addition to several mid-size to senior gold and base metal producers including Grande Cache Coal's operations, Kinross Gold Corporation's Fort Knox, Round Mountain and Kettle River operations and Vale Inco's Thompson and Sudbury base metal operations. | |
| Paul Keller, P.Eng. Position: Vice-President of Operations Mr. Keller brings extensive mine operations experience in Canada with 27 years of experience most recently as Manager of Technical Services for a major Canadian mining contractor where he led a team of engineers and designers on various mining contracts for major mining companies. Mr. Keller began his career with Rio Algom Limited and has also worked in various management roles with Barrick Gold's Hemlo mine in operations, engineering and maintenance. Mr. Keller holds a Bachelor of Engineering/Mining from Laurentian University and is a Professional Engineer. | |
| Technical Team Committed team of geoscientists and engineers with extensive experience from grass roots discoveries through project definition to production. | |
| Dayle Rusk, P.Geo. Position: Vice-President of Exploration Ms. Rusk has over 30 years of base and precious metal production and exploration experience in underground and open-pit mines. Dayle was previously Chief of Technical Services for Imperial Metals where she was responsible for all aspects of engineering and production geology including short and long-range planning, mine design, resource-reserve calculations and subsequent production-reconciliation studies. She has also held roles as Senior Production Geologist at Goldcorp's Red Lake mine and Anglo American's Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting - Flin Flon production unit and most recently with Kria Resources. |
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